The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-15


effort for life, II for no other reason
THAI to fin 'sh this series Of letters.
Justice to nv many readers demanded
that should struggle to save my
young life. became more excited as
! thought Of stopping your paper be-
cause my weekly letters were stopped
bv the ruth ess hand OF the Storm
King and blamed old schooner load.
ed 10 the muzzle with sand; so /
laid aside my modssty, let out q reef
in my huttering garments and climbed
out to the end OF the bowsprit.
tbs gentle and utbane reader who
is q tiaut rope walker, aUd who wishes
10 understand the full scope tf this
daring feat, will pleaie p oGurs pole,
hang 1t out the % cond story virdUw,
and then run out TO the end II iC while
somebody "wlggles"i 1t violently from
wilhin, and the wind no Wis AID blows
his care full Of wafer. Then he can
retire to his closet, shut toe door, lie
down on cane bottomed lounge, and
imagine my feelings ss / ran out on
that bowsprit. /. Is twenty feet long,
but TO me seemed O thoutand. !
reached out against the schooner's
side WITH the idiotic in ton OF push,
ing her 1 Il Just then wave lifted
her, our bowsprit vent crash through
her iotton sides distance OF two fest,
and 1t stuck there. The three New
Zea andera c uli do not 1irg but talk,
ana we talked back to ,hen, and the
winds seemed 10 laugh and shrek with
delight ut our troubles, aud the noise
Of the elements drowned our voiceF,
while we jabbed boat hooks into the
side of the old hulk. We did not get
loose until four men came Oh from
shore and cut as apart with an axe.
Then a tug came and hauled the
schooner away. We were feeling that
the danger was over, and was about
10 retire and take an arnica bath
and put on suit Of sticking
plaster, when We discovered thar
we were going along In the
wake OF the schooner. Her anchor
had caught In our cable, More "ahoys"
from Murray, and solos on the log.
horn by myself. The tug hove to, the
tangle was untaDgled somehow, and
once more We were free. As we we're
congrstul sting each other on this
second escape, third, and q greater
danger, threatened ne. The New Y a.
land had dragged our 81 Choir some
distance from its resting place. When
che let IL 20 there was q great slack In
our 800 feet Of cable, and before that
was taken up the wiud drove us down
on the yacht Ripple. As we came
sweeping down on her bow, Murray
began hsuling on our anchor cab @
and shouted to me TO 'throw over the
kedge." ran Ia the direction lie
pointed. / did not know what a
kedge vas, but / cav that IL was no
Tins for asking questions. The order
was to throw out kedge. II had to
be done gu ckly, aud l was going to
do IL, too. / knew IL was better that
ninety and nine innocent articles
thould be sacrificed than that one
ksdge should not be hdug into the
srTging tide. So fled overheard
everything Of weighty iron or tin or
brass that l could see, hoping
that smoDg them might be
kedge. Wnen about 20 throw the
stove pipe astern-how was to know
that "kedgc" was not the nautical
name for stove pipe--I wac stopped
by the bowsrrit OF the other yacht
coming sweeping through our rigging,
and with the shock OF the two yachts
coming together. Then / realized, as
was thrown backwards and fell over
q can Of kerosene oil, that there was
no use In wasting any more OF our
valuable portable property. Two
frightened yiung men, as scauiiy
clothed as / was, poured up ont Of the
cabin Of the Ripple. There was a
tsblesu that would BE- fortune 10 the
grea, marine painter that would put
IL on canvas.
There was more pulling OF ropes aud
poking of boat hooks, aud once agein
We were safely anchored, and Murray
and went down into the cabin and
patched up each others bruises and
abr eions.
"Qaite little blow, old boy, WASN'T
III said murray.
"Ye'. rather breezy and interesting
and quite crsditable for a granite.
walled basin."
at will be worse than that when we
get down below the saguenay."
well, / think so; II one can be
nearly wrecked three times be.
fore breakfast In a land.locked,
roek.prolecied q iebec deck, fexpeci
Shen We get further down the river
We thall get all the exercise our sys.
TENS need In lodging ghthouses,
keepirg iugs from running away With
us, aud preventing schConers from
climbing over u.s."
Murray says that VIII IN a man goes
Yachting he must'tx p.cl such little In.
cidents. II be calls our experiences q
little incident wonder u ns woaldn'i
call a hurricane q turf beat on les
shore, and death q slight inconveni.
ence.
There is one thing regarding which
l have made up my mind. As lon.,
90 this trip lasts | am going 10 sleep
with my trousers on. Another thing
We, the people Of the United States,
don't want any ANNEXATION OF Canada.
Do We want to be kept awske at night
Cover ling q country where a stranger
is banged around on an EN- pity siom.
seh, before day break, by the elements
a. d an old eand seow2
t..
am getting nader and madden
every minute. My mind is made up.
The United States positively does not
want TO annex Canada. I have Just
found out Il a, my gun case Ia a. the
bottom OF the basin Louise. II was a
heavy, Uncovered affair, and / m nst
have mistaken II for q "sedge" yeater.
day morning. What is ledge"
anyhowH J. ARMY KsoI
p. Sit any one THINKS have ex.
aegerated our peiils In the ba,in,
refer him 10 IN account Of the incident
published In the Qusbec Morning
Chronicle, and written by Local 70.
porter who was an eye witness, he be.
log on his way homs from an early
train At that time. While sons may
think my language more graphic than
the reporters, others will CON mend
his account for is iruthlulness.
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